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ANTH2024 – Mad, Bad, Sad: Cross Cultural Perspectives
2023 – Session 1, Online-flexible
General Information
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Jaap Timmer
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| Credit points |
Credit points
10
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(ANTH150 or ANTH1050) or 40cp at 1000 level or above
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| Corequisites |
Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
How do cultures in different parts of the world determine and understand who is mad, bad or sad? Madness, deviance and other forms of social difference are cultural constructs that vary considerably across both historical period and cultural context. Moreover, these ideas have profound moral implications that become dramatically entwined with people's lived experience, as well as broader socio-political structures. We examine the cultural and social construction of normality, with a focus on what happens when people find themselves outside these bounds. We will explore comparative perspectives on social structures and individual experiences and meaning, examining themes such as 'sanity', mental illness and culture, melancholy and depression, emotions, sexuality, gender norms, and their transgressions. Throughout, we will focus on the social processes of labeling, representation, medicalisation, and stigmatisation associated with these experiences. Ultimately, students will come to understand how difference is constructed and embodied, and become aware of how deviance is surveilled, managed, and constrained in a variety of cultural contexts.
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- ULO1: Demonstrate command of anthropological knowledge and theories related to normality, abnormality, and how social difference is constructed and managed within particular social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts.
- ULO2: Analyse comparative ethnographic perspectives on themes related to culture and madness, disorder, deviance, addictions, and mental health.
- ULO3: Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- ULO5: Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
- ULO4: Apply critical analytic skills to discover how desire and deviance transcend individual bodies and are incited, monitored and regulated within the social body and the body politic.
- ULO6: Analyse and interpret assumptions about other cultures and cultural differences and what is considered ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ human experience.
- ULO7: Demonstrate an ability to analyse the cultural construction of abnormality and difference within public representations of culture, madness and deviance.
General Assessment Information
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic.
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Final Online Quiz | 25% | No | During Week 13 |
| Midterm Quiz (online) | 25% | No | During Week 8 |
| Take-home exam | 30% | No | 12 May 2023 |
| Tutorial Participation | 20% | No | Weekly from Week 2 onwards |
Final Online Quiz
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: During Week 13
Weighting: 25%
A final quiz (multiple choice and/or short answer) that will be completed online.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate command of anthropological knowledge and theories related to normality, abnormality, and how social difference is constructed and managed within particular social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts.
- Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
- Apply critical analytic skills to discover how desire and deviance transcend individual bodies and are incited, monitored and regulated within the social body and the body politic.
Midterm Quiz (online)
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: During Week 8
Weighting: 25%
A quiz (multiple choice and/or short answer) that will be completed online.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate command of anthropological knowledge and theories related to normality, abnormality, and how social difference is constructed and managed within particular social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts.
- Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
- Apply critical analytic skills to discover how desire and deviance transcend individual bodies and are incited, monitored and regulated within the social body and the body politic.
Take-home exam
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 21 hours
Due: 12 May 2023
Weighting: 30%
Take-home written exam
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate command of anthropological knowledge and theories related to normality, abnormality, and how social difference is constructed and managed within particular social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts.
- Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
- Apply critical analytic skills to discover how desire and deviance transcend individual bodies and are incited, monitored and regulated within the social body and the body politic.
- Analyse and interpret assumptions about other cultures and cultural differences and what is considered ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ human experience.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse the cultural construction of abnormality and difference within public representations of culture, madness and deviance.
Tutorial Participation
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 24 hours
Due: Weekly from Week 2 onwards
Weighting: 20%
Active attendance and engagement with lecture and tutorial materials for on campus students in class. Active attendance and engagement with lecture and tutorial materials via the discussion forums in iLearn for online students.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Analyse comparative ethnographic perspectives on themes related to culture and madness, disorder, deviance, addictions, and mental health.
- Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
- Analyse and interpret assumptions about other cultures and cultural differences and what is considered ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ human experience.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse the cultural construction of abnormality and difference within public representations of culture, madness and deviance.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
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2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
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Unit information based on version 2023.01R of the Handbook